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nasa chief charles bolden was on capitol hill yesterday. he said a small meteor that injured more than a thousand people in russia could have been detected, even deflected, if the right equipment was in place. he says the u.s. needs new outer space telescopes with infrared technology to track meteors because right now there's not much we can do. >> if you detected even a small one, like the one that they did in russia, headed for new york city in three weeks, what would we do? >> the answer to you is if it's coming in three weeks, pray. >> reporter: now, that meteor was only 55 feet long. experts say the chances of a major catastrophe from that is slim but are very real now. there are roughly 10,000 small meteors floating around within range of earth, all of those capable of destroying a major u.s. city. john and diana. >> whoa. scary stuff. all right. devin dwyer in washington for is this morning, thank you. >>> the mayor of kansas city, missouri, must have felt like he had been hit by a meteor as he delivered the state of the city address
nasa chief charles bolden was on capitol hill yesterday. he said a small meteor that injured more than a thousand people in russia could have been detected, even deflected, if the right equipment was in place. he says the u.s. needs new outer space telescopes with infrared technology to track meteors because right now there's not much we can do. >> if you detected even a small one, like the one that they did in russia, headed for new york city in three weeks, what would we do? >>...
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but at present funding levels nasa believes it will take almost 20 years to identify them all. what would help is an infrared telescope. the government won't pay for one. but a former astronaut is looking to build the first ever privately funded deep space telescope. nasa is collaborating on the project, but the space agency said it needs more money to identify and develop ways to protect the planet. >> a good segment of the population thinks it's a matter of calling bruce willis. notwithstanding we don't have a shuttle anymore. >> reporter: hollywood's version is definitely a bit dramatic. but scientists say there is reason to be concerned. the meteor in russia was like a shot across the bow. stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york. >>> well, we have no choice but to move on. as our broadcast continues, the staggering impact of alzheimer's. one in three seniors will be stricken but there is a new device in the fight. >>> later, the price paid for one of the most iconic dresses ever worn by princess diana. >>> as we mentioned, there is news tonight on alzheimer's. new numbers paint
but at present funding levels nasa believes it will take almost 20 years to identify them all. what would help is an infrared telescope. the government won't pay for one. but a former astronaut is looking to build the first ever privately funded deep space telescope. nasa is collaborating on the project, but the space agency said it needs more money to identify and develop ways to protect the planet. >> a good segment of the population thinks it's a matter of calling bruce willis....
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nasa's chief provided this answer. >> the bottom line as always, the funding did not come. and i don't care whose fault it is or if it's anybody's fault, we all know what we're facing today. and we're all sitting here today as the congress and the administration try to figure out sequestration, something that never should have happened, nobody planned to happen, but we're facing it today. so the answer to you is, if it's coming in three weeks, pray. >> that's reassuring. >> lovely. >> houston, we have a budget problem. chad myers, is the sky falling? >> it isn't falling. we don't know anything that's headed our way just yet. that's good news. nasa says they know where 95% of these big asteroids are, that concerns me that they don't know where the other 5% are. and the ones that came across and hit russia, they know where 10% of those are. i don't like those odds. when there's a 10% chance of rain, that means it's probably not going to rain, but there's a 90% chance of something else, right? >> right. >> we don't know where almost 20,000 of these bigger than bus-size rocks a
nasa's chief provided this answer. >> the bottom line as always, the funding did not come. and i don't care whose fault it is or if it's anybody's fault, we all know what we're facing today. and we're all sitting here today as the congress and the administration try to figure out sequestration, something that never should have happened, nobody planned to happen, but we're facing it today. so the answer to you is, if it's coming in three weeks, pray. >> that's reassuring. >>...
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the nasa officials warn the u.s. and the rest of the world simply do not have the ability to demany small meet tears, one in small quotations like the one that injured a thousand people in russia. or the one that now close to san francisco. nasa says it needs money to detect small asteroids that are flying around in space before they hit us and this is why. >> there are some objects we know that are coming years in advance. there are other objects still big enough to cause damage, that we only know about weeks in advance or days in advance. obviously we need to improve the capability to give us a large amount of notice, enough notice to mount a deflection mission, if we see one on a collision course. jenna: chief astronomer derek pitts is with us. so, derek, how vulnerable are we? >> well the real, the reality of it, jenna, is that while there are some large objects out there, we know pretty well where the big ones are. it is the smaller ones that we really have to be concerned about but the truth is that your chance
the nasa officials warn the u.s. and the rest of the world simply do not have the ability to demany small meet tears, one in small quotations like the one that injured a thousand people in russia. or the one that now close to san francisco. nasa says it needs money to detect small asteroids that are flying around in space before they hit us and this is why. >> there are some objects we know that are coming years in advance. there are other objects still big enough to cause damage, that we...
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nasa can't peg exactly when that will be.or where. it just wants to be ready. so far, no real solution, but they're working on it. i'm vicki liviakis, kron 4 news. >> catherine: we are tracking the storm. looking live downtown san francisco stay with us. morning, brian! love your passat! um. listen, gary. i bought the last one. nice try. says right here you can get one for $199 a month. you can't believe the lame-stream media, gary. they're all gone. maybe i'll get one. [ male announcer ] now everyone's going to want one. you can't have the same car as me, gary! i'm gettin' one. nope! [ male announcer ] volkswagen springtoberfest is here and there's no better time to get a passat. that's the power of german engineering. right now lease one of four volkswagen models for under $200 a month. visit vwdealer.com today. [ male announcer ] it's no secret that the price of things just keeps going up. [ female announcer ] but we have some good news. it's our bundle price promise. [ male announcer ] a price you can definitely count on for two whole years. from at&t. call
nasa can't peg exactly when that will be.or where. it just wants to be ready. so far, no real solution, but they're working on it. i'm vicki liviakis, kron 4 news. >> catherine: we are tracking the storm. looking live downtown san francisco stay with us. morning, brian! love your passat! um. listen, gary. i bought the last one. nice try. says right here you can get one for $199 a month. you can't believe the lame-stream media, gary. they're all gone. maybe i'll get one. [ male announcer ]...
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rote to youto -- w about security lapses at the nasa centers. i saw that the fbi and dhs were involved and in the apprehension of a credible individual being held. you have any comments about that case? think it is indicative of the threat he mentioned. the arrest occurred over the weekend and is now in of the court proceeding . happening at nasa langley and i saw your testimony last week's with regard to clapper with regard to china, ames or be happening at places?rd or other has anyone taken a systematic look at it? >> we do have -- we have a number of investigations ongoing but in terms of a systematic review and being undertaken, i would have to get back to you. i am not aware myself of a systematic review. theif you would get back -- individual at langley was paid for by taxpayer money. the attack jarrett subsidize him if it could be happening at langley -- if you could look at that and get back, i would appreciate it. gangs.stions on a recent bulletin produced by the national gang intelligence been noted there have growing numbers of viole
rote to youto -- w about security lapses at the nasa centers. i saw that the fbi and dhs were involved and in the apprehension of a credible individual being held. you have any comments about that case? think it is indicative of the threat he mentioned. the arrest occurred over the weekend and is now in of the court proceeding . happening at nasa langley and i saw your testimony last week's with regard to clapper with regard to china, ames or be happening at places?rd or other has anyone taken...
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. >>> nasa and white house officials said the nation's asteroid detection program is behind schedule and billions of dollars are needed to keep americans safe from space threats like the meteor that exploded over russia last month. more than a thousand people were injured. officials said the risk of a massive meteor slamming into earth any time soon is small. just one in 20,000. here's the bad news, anderson. at least 10,000 large space objects -- one official used the term "city killers" haven't been connected yet. >> is it behind she-jool or schedule? >> she-jool. trust me. >> oh, smashing. >> tally-ho. >> i'm going to have some "aluminium" soda cans now. michele bachmann is back with claims about president obama wasting your money on chefs and dog walkers but are the accusations true? we're keeping them honest. >>> and what a convicted school shooter wore to his sentencing and what he said to victim families that has them understandably outraged. tion in, impact wool exports from new zealand, textile production in spain, and the use of medical technology in the u.s.? at t. rowe pr
. >>> nasa and white house officials said the nation's asteroid detection program is behind schedule and billions of dollars are needed to keep americans safe from space threats like the meteor that exploded over russia last month. more than a thousand people were injured. officials said the risk of a massive meteor slamming into earth any time soon is small. just one in 20,000. here's the bad news, anderson. at least 10,000 large space objects -- one official used the term "city...
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the head of nasa has some advice for americans. probably not what you would expect to hear from scientists. we will be right back girl vo: i'm pretty conservative. very logical thinker. (laughs) i'm telling you right now, the girl back at home would absolutely not have taken a zip line in the jungle. (screams) i'm reallylad that girl stayed at home. vo: expedia helps 30 million travelers a month find what they're looking for. one traveler at a time. expedia. find yours. helps provide many with, day and night relief of heartburn symptoms caused by acid reflux disea.. there is risk of bone fracture, and low magnesium levels. side effects may include headache, abdominal pain, and diarrhea. call your dooror right away if you have persistent diarrhea. other serious stomhh conditions may exist. don't take nexium if you take clopidogrel. ask your doctor if nexium is right for you. find out how you may be able to get nexium for just $18 a month at purplepill.com bill: charles bolden says that there would only be one thing for you to do it
the head of nasa has some advice for americans. probably not what you would expect to hear from scientists. we will be right back girl vo: i'm pretty conservative. very logical thinker. (laughs) i'm telling you right now, the girl back at home would absolutely not have taken a zip line in the jungle. (screams) i'm reallylad that girl stayed at home. vo: expedia helps 30 million travelers a month find what they're looking for. one traveler at a time. expedia. find yours. helps provide many with,...
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nasa says not unless the u.s. is ready to pay up. ainsley earhart has more. >> they're basically telling you to get on your knees and start praying. these killer asteroids are usually only seen in the movies, right? but last month's russia's close call with a meteor got people a little worried. yesterday nasa officials told congress they have only detected about 10% of meteors like that one which could wipe out an entire city. and while funding to track space threats has grown, nasa needs to spend billions in the next few years to expand the program, they say. officials say right now, the country doesn't have a defense. >> if you detected even a small one like the one that detonated in russia, head for new york city in three weeks what, we would do? >> if it's coming in three weeks, pray. >> the bottom line is always, the funding did not come. >> pretty scary. nasa is planning to build a sensor and laser system to hut down asteroids, but it will cost billions of dollars. but they say sequesterration cuts are threatening the plans. so
nasa says not unless the u.s. is ready to pay up. ainsley earhart has more. >> they're basically telling you to get on your knees and start praying. these killer asteroids are usually only seen in the movies, right? but last month's russia's close call with a meteor got people a little worried. yesterday nasa officials told congress they have only detected about 10% of meteors like that one which could wipe out an entire city. and while funding to track space threats has grown, nasa needs...
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the nasa chief told lawmakers a meteor may have been deflected. infrared technology could have detected the meteor. currently there is not a whole lot we can do. >> if you detected even a small one like the one that detonated in russia, headed for new york city in three weeks. what would we do? >> the answer to you, if it's coming in three weeks, pray. >> experts warn the chances of a meteor catastrophe are slim. they say they are real. 10,000 small meteors within range capable of destroying heavily populated urban areas are out there. >>> now to a medical study that hits home for sleep deprived and stressed out right here at home. turns out they may make us at risk for obesity. colorado researchers discovered adults who got five hours of sleep a night gained weight almost immediately after cutting back on sleep. they ate 6% more food than adults who got nine hours of sleep at night. researchers discovered sleep deprived people crave fatty foods. wonder what the study is on people who get no sleep at night. >> should i let out my suit now because
the nasa chief told lawmakers a meteor may have been deflected. infrared technology could have detected the meteor. currently there is not a whole lot we can do. >> if you detected even a small one like the one that detonated in russia, headed for new york city in three weeks. what would we do? >> the answer to you, if it's coming in three weeks, pray. >> experts warn the chances of a meteor catastrophe are slim. they say they are real. 10,000 small meteors within range...
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nasa says it's possible, speshly considering that a immediator exploded over yusha last month. if one threatened new york, pray. 95% of asteroids capable of destroying civilization pose no immediate threat but they also say they know little about so-called city killers. in a house hearing yesterday a nasa official pushed for an astronaut mission to an asteroid by 2025. that is not comforting. >> not at all. faen you're up this early, maybe you didn't get enough sleep last night. new research this morning shows that getting just a few hours of sleep a night in a row can lead to almost immediate weight gain. immediate, folks. researchers at the university of colorado studied 16 healthy men and women for two weeks, some were allowed to sleep a luxurious nine hours a night. the rest just five hours like z and i. those who stayed up late and got less sleep not only ate more, they also ate less healthy food consuming 6% more calories than the well rested group. i'm just going to sleep and sleep and sleep. >> all they needed to do is study us here. >> anyone that works in news. >> rig
nasa says it's possible, speshly considering that a immediator exploded over yusha last month. if one threatened new york, pray. 95% of asteroids capable of destroying civilization pose no immediate threat but they also say they know little about so-called city killers. in a house hearing yesterday a nasa official pushed for an astronaut mission to an asteroid by 2025. that is not comforting. >> not at all. faen you're up this early, maybe you didn't get enough sleep last night. new...
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. >>> a huge asteroid heads for new york city, here's nasa's advice. pray. congress is taking asteroid threats seriously. >> there is a 30% chance there is a five megaton or so impact that will happen on a random location on this planet this century. this is not hypothetical. >> former astronaut ed lu testified today. he and other experts are pushing congress for new government spending to help stop asteroids. their request may hit budget realities here on earth, though. >>> president barack obama filled out his nca a brackets fr the fifth year in a row. obama picked the hoosiers over the cardinals to win the championship held in atlanta. >>> now he's in israel, jerusalem to be specific. we're awaiting a press conference with israeli president benjamin netanyahu and the president of the united states, barack obama. this is kevin.male an] to prove to you that aleve is the better choice for him, he's agreed to give it up. that's today? [ male announcer ] we'll be with him all day as he goes back to taking tylenol. i was okay, but after lunch my knee started to
. >>> a huge asteroid heads for new york city, here's nasa's advice. pray. congress is taking asteroid threats seriously. >> there is a 30% chance there is a five megaton or so impact that will happen on a random location on this planet this century. this is not hypothetical. >> former astronaut ed lu testified today. he and other experts are pushing congress for new government spending to help stop asteroids. their request may hit budget realities here on earth, though....
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nasa says there's only one thing the u.s. could do if a large meteor was headed our way. and that is to pray. charles bolden, junior, the administrator, made the comments yesterday during a congress at hearing on the threat posed by asteroids and meteors like the one that injured more than a thousand people in russia last month. bolden sasine currently lacks the ability to find and track meteor the like the one that hit -- meteors like the one that rit russia. >>> a middle school in southern minnesota is locked down at this hour. there was a 911 call of a report that a gunman was on the campus. they immediately went on red alert and locked down every classroom. a police search of the school so far has turned up nothing. new prague is about 45 miles southwest of minneapolis. there are about 875 students in grades 6 through 8 there. we'll keep an eye on it and bring you the latest details as we get them. >>> just as predict -- just as predicted, we have showers. meteorologist steve paulson is tracking the storm and tell us how long this wet weather will stick around. >>> al
nasa says there's only one thing the u.s. could do if a large meteor was headed our way. and that is to pray. charles bolden, junior, the administrator, made the comments yesterday during a congress at hearing on the threat posed by asteroids and meteors like the one that injured more than a thousand people in russia last month. bolden sasine currently lacks the ability to find and track meteor the like the one that hit -- meteors like the one that rit russia. >>> a middle school in...
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nasa says there's only one thing the u.s. could do if a large meteor was headed our way. and that is to pray. charles bolden, junior, the administrator, made the comments yesterday during a congress at hearing on the threat posed by asteroids and meteors like the one that injured more than a thousand people in russia last month. bolden sasine currently lacks the ability to find and track meteor the like the one that hit -- meteors like the one that rit russia. >>> a middle school in southern minnesota is locked down at this hour. there was a 911 call of a report that a gunman was on the campus. they immediately went on red alert and locked down every classroom. a police search of the school so far has turned up nothing. new prague is about 45 miles southwest of minneapolis. there are about 875 students in grades 6 through 8 there. we'll keep an eye on it and bring you the latest details as we get them. >>> just as predict -- just as predicted, we have showers. meteorologist steve paulson is tracking the storm and tell us how long this wet weather will stick around. >>> al
nasa says there's only one thing the u.s. could do if a large meteor was headed our way. and that is to pray. charles bolden, junior, the administrator, made the comments yesterday during a congress at hearing on the threat posed by asteroids and meteors like the one that injured more than a thousand people in russia last month. bolden sasine currently lacks the ability to find and track meteor the like the one that hit -- meteors like the one that rit russia. >>> a middle school in...
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. >>> the head of nasa warned congress tuesday that the u.s. would be helpless against a meteor like the one that injured more than 1,000 people in russia last month. >> if you detected even a small one, like the one that detonated in russia, headed for new york city in three weeks, what would we do? >> the answer to you is if it's coming in three weeks, pray. >> nasa says a current funding levels it would take almost 20 years to be able to identify all of the meteors large enough to devastate a city. >>> and now for a look at what is trending today our quick roundup of what has you talking online. tiger woods may have a new girlfriend but elin nordegren has him weight in the yacht size. billionaire chris klein's yacht is almost ten feet long than tig tiger's. he moored his right in front of tigers at an arena. >>> this viral video shows what happens when a bear really wants a ticket to ride. he slams into a train station ticket window which fortunately had iron bars for protection. experts say it was a crop of nuts and berries that caught bear
. >>> the head of nasa warned congress tuesday that the u.s. would be helpless against a meteor like the one that injured more than 1,000 people in russia last month. >> if you detected even a small one, like the one that detonated in russia, headed for new york city in three weeks, what would we do? >> the answer to you is if it's coming in three weeks, pray. >> nasa says a current funding levels it would take almost 20 years to be able to identify all of the meteors...